Listen To: Ryal

Singer-songwriter and keyboardist Jacque Ryal, better known as Ryal, is releasing her debut EP this spring. She just released her new single Lonely Love which was was inspired by the Arctic Monkeys’ 2013 album, AM and features harmony vocals by White Prism’s Johanna Cranitch, who has worked with The Cranberries and The Cardigans’ Nina Persson. Ryal spent a decade laying the groundwork for her emergence as a solo artist as the charismatic front person and – in the words of Time Out NY – “angelic-voice keyboardist’ for the mixed gender indie pop outfit Strip Darling, a popular NYC mainstay which performed at numerous hotspots (Mercury Lounge, Trash Bar, CBGB’s and the prestigious Highline Ballroom) and released the album Mend in 2012.